Linux Network Administrator's Guide
The Linux Network Administrator's Guide (NAG) is a book on setting up and running Unix networks. The first and second editions are freely available in electronic form under the GFDL. It was originally produced by Olaf Kirch and others as part of the Linux Documentation Project with help from O'Reilly. The second edition, from Terry Dawson, was released March 2000. The third edition of the guide was written by Tony Bautts, with assistance from Gregor N. Purdy in February 2005, but is not freely available like the previous two versions.
Contents
It includes the following sections:
- Introduction to Networking
- Issues of TCP/IP Networking
- Configuring the Networking Hardware
- Setting up the Serial Hardware
- Configuring TCP/IP Networking
- Name Service and Resolver Configuration
- Serial Line IP
- The Point-to-Point Protocol
- Various Network Applications
- The Network Information System
- The Network File System
- Managing UUCP
- Electronic Mail
- Getting email Up and Running
- Sendmail+IDA
- Netnews
- C News
- A Description of NNTP
- Newsreader Configuration
- A glossary
- Annotated Bibliography
References
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
External links
- The Second edition, http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html
- The Third edition http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag3
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